From owner-freebsd-small Thu Apr 5 13:58:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from gta.com (mailgate.gta.com [199.120.225.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2430337B505 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lab@gta.com) Received: from gta.com (GTA internal mail system) by gta.com id QAA69722; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200104052057.QAA69722@gta.com> From: Larry Baird To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Cc: Gunther Schadow Subject: Re: the fla driver definitely has bugs ... X-Newsgroups: freebsd.small In-Reply-To: <3ACCA8FD.CD45F7FA@gta.com> Organization: Global Technology Associates, Inc. User-Agent: tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.5-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > While one can get it to work somehow and sometimes and for so > long, something is definitely wrong with the fla driver (DiskOnChip). > This stray interrupt 7 shouldn't happen at all in the first place. > And it also seems as if after several writes it somehow goes bad and > once it starts with these stray interrupts there is no other way > than redoing the disklabel, filesystem, etc. I hae thousands of systems installed using the fla driver and 8MB DOCs without any problem. Initially based upon FreeBSD 3.5., now based upon 4.2. I have had DOCs forget everything and need to be flashed after shipping. After installation the DOCs have been very reliable. They just are expensive, single source and can be hard to get as compared to compact flash. > This is not right. Is the fla driver being maintained by someone > or have we inherited it from the M-Systems guys AS IS? Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.ORG) is the author and I assume the maintainer. Larry -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | http://www.gnatbox.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message